About Inframara

About us

Inframara is here to help as your trusted partner. By collaborating early with key parties and stakeholders, we identify and structure the best solution for your project.


Once your project is underway, Inframara is committed to its success with continued support. Our team provides advice for infrastructure projects to owners, developers, contractors, lenders, and investors.

 


Inframara specializes in strategic planning and financing for crucial infrastructure projects. Our focus is on large, complex, or high-risk projects. Working together with our clients, our integrated team gains a thorough understanding of requirements, which facilitates innovation and cost savings.


With a global team of experienced partners, Inframara brings decades of international experience to the table, ensuring the success of your infrastructure project.

We believe that genuine early collaboration of competent parties for complex infrastructure projects will create more sustainable results for stakeholders.

Our vision

Lukas Goemaere

Lukas is a seasoned finance executive / consultant with over two decades of international experience, primarily in the maritime construction sector. He has held senior leadership roles within the DEME Group and he has a demonstrated successful track record as an independent consultant.  

 

Lukas has acted as a director in many group companies, and he has been a partner representative in various joint ventures. He has successfully concluded fundraisings and M&A transactions. He is a specialist in financial modeling, concession, and non-recourse project financing.  

 

Lukas holds a Master's in Finance from IE Business School and he has also completed an MBA at Vlerick Business School. With a track record of aligning financial strategy with project execution, he is uniquely positioned to secure funding and manage financial operations to ensure project success from start to finish. 

Lieven Durt

Lieven Durt has more than 3 decades of engineering, tendering and management experience in the development and execution of dredging and marine infrastructure projects worldwide, with a particular focus on projects in sub-Saharan Africa.


He spent most of his career with the leading international marine and offshore contractor, DEME, where he was a member of the management team responsible for Africa, QHSES, Communications and Compliance. In 2017, he joined the management team of Rent-A-Port, a port and industrial land developer, where he was responsible for Africa and the Middle East.


His global experience helps projects and companies to identify country, cultural, contractual and execution risks at an early stage and to improve business processes to achieve operational excellence. He enjoys working with stakeholders in a collaborative way to build sustainable and long-term relationships.

Jasper Verstreepen

Jasper is an experienced Project Manager and Technical Director with extensive experience in managing international construction and development projects across five continents. 


He has a successful track record of delivering turn-key marine and civil engineering projects (from the design phase to the delivery phase) with strong expertise in emerging markets. During his career and leadership, he served on the contractor, investor, and consultant side of the business.

Experience all over the world

Our global network

Engineering knowledge

Innovation in engineering techniques need to be reality checked. Our network of engineering firms are acknowledged as leaders in their fields of expertise. 

For our specific sectors, we can rely on a unique global network of engineers who are specialists in their fields. 

Legal expertise

Collaborative contracting calls for specific legal expertise in relational rather than transactional contracts. We work with legal firms experienced in the sector to promote these contracts.

Cost management / benchmarking 

Working with a trusted group of estimators, quantity surveyors,cost consultants and industry specialists we have insider knowledge on project costs, budgets and planning.

Financing providers

We have contact with a large network of infrastructure lenders,multilateral organizations such as the World Bank, IDB/IADB and with ECA’s. Over the years, we have built a large network of financing providers who value our expertise and trust our capabilities in order provide the financing of your project.

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